MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.

'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour, but as the sea was very heavy on the bar it was not considered safe by some of the pilots to go out to her. Four men however were seen to pull down the river, evidently with the intention of going to the steamer. While crossing the bar the boat was filled by a heavy sea, which washed the men overboard. Within five minutes of the accident the Life-boat was launched, and with all speed made for the spot. They found the boat, which was awash, had drifted about three hundred yards to the southward with two of the men clinging to her, who were at once taken into the Life-boat. After this they made for one of the others, who was dinging to the boat's mast, but he held on so tenaciously, as with a death grip, that it was only after considerable difficulty and trouble he was picked up. The last of the four was then found clinging to the boat's oars, and he was also saved by the Life-boat, which then made for Montrose. The rescued men were all in a very exhausted condition and had, when landed, to be medically treated, but happily all recovered..